2nd Quick Step: How to listen to your math teacher so you understand them.
A quick way to make sense of what your teacher is saying!
Hello MATH STUDENTS! Today’s all about how to listen. Let’s do this!
1. Your math teacher’s job is to help you understand what they’re saying. Yeah, you may not agree, but hold your horses, keep reading. They do that by using past math (that you should know), to help with the new math (that you don’t know). They talk and you listen! Your job is to listen* and bridge the gap between old and new math!
*Listening and hearing are not the same. Listening requires thinking and then a response.
2. To understand your teacher’s talking, be asking yourself, ‘How is this similar to math I know?’, ‘‘Where’s the old math in this new math?’ One way to do this is for every math word(s) they speak you change that into an easy question and jot it down.
3. Let’s go into a math class: